I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

It's much more fun to be ugly.

I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.